From CNN Breaking News@VERT to no-reply@siteservices.cnn.com on Tue Dec 20 11:02:58 2016
Officials have released a man who had been in custody[1] after the truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market, Germany's general prosecutor said in a statement Tuesday.
"The investigations thus far have not produced urgent suspicion against the suspect," the statement said.
Berlin police have called on the public to remain alert. President of the Federal Criminal Office Holger Mnch earlier said that authorities were "looking in all directions" for suspects.
In other developments:
o Berliners converged at the nearby Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church to pay their respects to the victims[2].
o The truck is owned by a Polish company, and a Polish man was found
slaininside[3]. Officials said he was not at the wheel during the attack. The trucking company said he had asked to finish his duties early so he could buy a Christmas gift for his wife.
o German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday visited the scene of the attack: "I, like millions of people in Germany, am horrified and deeply sad about what happened."
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From CNN Breaking News@VERT to no-reply@siteservices.cnn.com on Wed Dec 21 08:34:45 2016
The Berlin truck attack suspect had been arrested in August[1] with forged documents on his way to Italy but was released by a judge, a German security official tells CNN.
The suspect's identity papers were found inside the truck used in Monday's attack on a Christmas market, which left 12 people dead, German security officials said.
The suspect was known to German security services as someone in contact with radical Islamist groups, and had been assessed as posing a risk, Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Ralf Jaeger told reporters.
The suspect was believed to have entered Germany in July 2015, Jaeger said. His asylum request was refused in June, and Tunisian authorities were informed when the deportation process started.
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